On 22 May 2006 11:06:30 -0700, "Jake Saliba"
wrote:


I've heard that Rivers Cuomo of Weezer began writing at least a song
every day sometime around when the Green album was released. He then
had hundreds of songs to choose from to develop an album.

I love writing, but I can't help but wonder if trying to do so much
volume really cheapens the ideas? I find strangely that some of my best
ideas happen after I haven't thought about anything for a week or two.
Also, I find that in order to really bring a song to where I want it to
be, it takes much more than I could ever do in one day.

It's good to see that Rivers takes his job as a songwriter seriously by
working on it every day, but personally, I felt that the songs on the
Blue album and especially Pinkerton were actually superior to anything
afterward. I have to wonder if it's due to a change in songwriting
techniques? Although many of the songs on those albums are quite
simple, there are a few that go through several key changes and one
that even uses all 11 notes as a root note to a chord at some point in
the song. Were those just his song of the day for that day? They sure
don't feel like it.

I just believe in making each song you write something special that
stands out. Many artists have trouble even creating a handfull of
songs like that. How could you possibly do it once a day?


jake

It's the number of good songs that count unfortunately. I am 48 and
have written probably 150 in my life. I'd say around 50 are good.


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